Category: Science

An international team has reconstructed the face of a man who lived in what’s now Ecuador more than 3,000 years ago and whose skull featured

Meriah DeJoseph grew up below the poverty line, so she was intrigued in college when she started reading what researchers had to say about people

An artificial intelligence (AI) model’s failed attempt to crack one of math’s most notorious unsolved problems has helped a human mathematician make progress on a

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts

We know all about how things exist in the three dimensions of length, width, and height. Physicists often talk about time as a fourth dimension

A new AI tool that analyzes speech could give users a glimpse of how they are aging and whether they’re at risk of dementia, a

Scientists have created the most accurate atomic clock ever made ‪—‬ and it could literally redefine the second. Researchers recently unveiled the record-breaking device, which

The world’s smallest crocodiles use a sneak attack to hunt bats in hellish underground caves filled with poop, a new video reveals. The footage of

Naegleria amoebas’ exploration skills and crawling behaviors could help explain how the brain-eating variety travel into human brains.

A female humpback whale may have spent days with her stillborn calf. This rare sighting may suggest that baleen whales experience grief.

Scientists have a new tool for mapping the universe’s perplexing acceleration. A Canadian telescope designed to chart the distribution of hydrogen gas across the ancient

Scientists graded every river and stream in the contiguous United States, flagging specific repairs each one needs to support aquatic life.

This long-duration image shows star trails above Earth and the blue lights of fishing boats and the yellow lights of Indonesian cities stretching below the

I get out of bed. I walk through the dimly lit hallway, thinking of what’s in my fridge and what I should have for breakfast.